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(00:00):
Hey, it's Greg Warren. Howare you doing? Man? Hey,
Greg Warren, this is Rex overat C one on one. I've been
waiting on your call. What areyou doing this morning? Making phone calls,
buddy? Talking to great people likeyou? Oh well you haven't any
I don't know who told you that, lie, but but I'm here with
you anyway, did you Now?I watched one of your comedy specials,

(00:22):
and you were talking about how youalways kind of had comedy floating around in
the back of your mind when you'rewhen you were selling peanut butter. How
yeah, that's a whole different subjectright there, man. But I watched
the special. It's absolutely hilarious.You can check it out on YouTube.
It's called The Salesman with Greg Warren. And you've been doing what comedy for?

(00:45):
Like what the last ten years?Longer than that? But really,
how long? How long has itbeen? I quit my day job in
two thousand and one. I quitselling peanut butter, you know, in
two thousand and one, and ohyeah, twenty two years. Again.
I don't know where I got tenyears from, but there you go.
Well, I worked, I worked, I sold peanut butter for ten years.

(01:08):
Men, That's probably why it wasrattling around in my brain. But
you had this, you had thisitch that you wanted to be on stage
in front of people making them laugh. Where was that born? Um,
probably some deep insecurity or I don'tknow what it was. All I know

(01:29):
is I was I needed an outlet. I was obnoxious around people until I
became a comedian. Now I havean outlet. I'm I'm much easier to
be around now, which is probablyprobably the same reason why I got into
radio. I started out, Yeah, I started out doing comedy, and
you know, everyone was annoyed byme all through all through high school and
after and then somebody said, oh, you're funny and you should go over

(01:53):
to the Funny Bone. So Iwent over to the Funny Bone and I
did this audition thing, and soI started doing comedy. And then it
wasn't you know, it wasn't longbefore a radio station in San Antonio was
there and they saw me and said, hey, come on the air and
and be part of our show.And I was like, wow, yeah,
okay, cool, and so itjust kind of went for it.

(02:14):
But you know, it's great.Radio is definitely where where I belong.
Comedy is tough because you know,you've always got to be constantly writing new
material and prepping it. Well.I find radio for me just to be
easier, just to just to talkto people. But when you go back
to a market that you've performed inbefore, it's got to be a challenge

(02:36):
to go, Okay, great,I gotta come up with a whole new
stuff when I walk into this place. Yeah, it's the most challenging part,
but it's also the most fun andthe most rewarding. Yeah. I
mean, the greatest feeling is whenlike, I got this new thing and
I'm pretty sure it's gonna work.Yeah, yeah, I Um, I
don't know. I kind of I'mat that stage right now because this special

(03:00):
just came out on Friday and Igot on stage and I realized, oh
man, this material is going tobe dead pretty soon. I have to
write a new thought. That's reallythat's really tough, you know, And
part of it, I think,is realizing where you belong. And you
could have stayed with Jeff selling peanutbutter forever, but you decided, you
know, and I belong somewhere else. I think I think I got a

(03:21):
lot happier in life when I realized, I'm a radio guy. This is
where I belong, this is whereI'm supposed to be, And I've got
lots of friends that are comedians,so I got to I got to kind
of live vicariously through, you know, those types of shinanigans. But I
did notice watching your your special,there's nothing dirty about it. How how

(03:42):
have you said? How do yousurvive? Because it's there's so many comics
out there that are like of thesort of the shocking quality and whatnot,
but you tell these great stories.And I realize, while I'm laughing,
I'm going he didn't say anything offensiveto anyone. How did this happen?
You know, I was never thatdirty at all. It's just it's I

(04:02):
like, I like a lot ofdirty comics. It's just not my style.
I just never was. And thenbut I was maybe a little profane
until about ten years ago. Igot some advice from a couple of people
that knew what they were talking aboutin the business. They're like, hey,
man, you're you're so close tobeing all the way clean. You
need to go all the way clean. And I argued with them for about
ten minutes, and I was like, no, they're right, So you

(04:24):
know, it's just kind of mystyle. And I honestly like, I
don't think it's a higher form ofcomedy or anything like that. I just
I would like anybody to be ableto watch this thing, and I think,
yeah, hopefully people sit down andpull YouTube up on their TV.
They don't watch on the front.They pulled it up on their TV,
and their whole family just sits downand watch watch this thing, and hopefully

(04:44):
it really doesn't occur to them thatthis is clean because it's I'm not trying
to be I think there's an edgeto it. I just I don't want
to be like real. I don'tknow sometimes when people say clean comedy,
like, oh good god, I'mnot watching what is he going to be
smashing fruit with a hammer? Hangon the second here? No. When

(05:05):
I watched you, I did Ihad the same realization you were hoping for,
because I got to almost the endof the special and I realized,
Hey, he hasn't done anything thatwould, you know, offend anyone.
And it's not, like you said, a higher form of comedy, but
certainly it's a more marketable one andgives you, I think, a bigger
audience because your stuff would be safein front of an entire family without making

(05:29):
somebody feel uncomfortable going, oh mygod, here comes that part. Yeah,
I gotta get these kids to startwatching me now. So in twenty
years, somebody's coming to my showand my audience is gonna be dead.
No. I kind of the guythat directed this thing is Nate Bargazzi.
Yeah, who has a Nate's aguy that you know that families, you
know, whole families go to hisshows. And Nate's killing it right now.

(05:51):
He's working arenas and he's the onewho came up with the idea.
He's like, Hey, I wantto put out a few comedies eshols that
are that my audience would like.Um. So it's on Nate's YouTube channel,
which is called Nateland, and it'suh yeah, and do you want
to do that? Do you wantto do arenas? Is that? Like?
What's the goal now? Because youknow, comedians used to be like,

(06:14):
oh I want to get on TV, but now there's so many there's
so many TV stations. We allget lost, you know, because I'm
I'm roughly I'm your age, I'mfifty six years old. Yeah, and
I have been dude, I'm fiftyfour. Don't put me in your age.
But when I when I forgot wherethe hell I was going, I

(06:35):
just I just got lost. Ilost my train of thought. What was
I even saying? Who am I? They see that's part of being fifty
six? Yeah, man, thatyour audience expects that by now. What
I was gonna say was, whenyou what's the goal? Because you know,
when you and I were kids,there were three channels and that was
it. Now people can find anythingthey wanted their fingertips everywhere. So is

(06:59):
it arenas shows? Is it moreTV? Do you want to do movies?
Or are you just open to anythingthat gets thrown your way? Man?
I don't like try to think awhole lot about that other than you
know, I think. I don'tthink I'm gonna be a leading man in
a Hollywood film. Uh, fiftyfour and I live in Saint Louis.

(07:20):
Who knows. But what I reallywant to do. I love doing stand
up comedy. I love it,yeah, um, and I want to
do it as much as I can. And like anybody else, I love
a lot of people to to tosee me, So I'm hoping I could
do I don't even care about doingbigger venues. I would like it if
you go into town and the comedyclub's already sold out on Thursday. That's

(07:42):
you know, like that would bea dream. You know, it's it's
a but you know, I justkind of want to. I like the
idea of trying to put together anew hour of stand up comedy every few
years and uh and having people enjoyit. That that's that's it sounds really
simplistic, but that's why I guessI've decided. Yeah, at the end
of the day, you're funny period. I watch your stuff and honestly,

(08:05):
it's like you are funny and andso that's already in you. Has it
become or has it ever been aproblem in your personal life, because you
know, some of these clubs andwhatnot, you're out, you know,
late at night. I don't knowif you're a married guy, if you're
not, if you're divorced, ifyou're dating, what the deal is.
But has that ever become a problemwhen you've got to be out so late

(08:28):
at these venues doing shows? No, man, I got nothing, dude,
Okay, yeah, I got nothing. Man. I mean, and
here I was I thought I wasdoing will well until you started breaking up.
I mean, I thought I hadthe life you haven't. Now when
you say it out loud, itsounds kind of pathetic. You haven't to
go home to do we gotta Whydo we gotta talk about that? I

(08:50):
can't talk about my peanut butter special. Come on, your peanut butter stuff
is incredible. It's called The Salesmanand you can check it out on YouTube
and it's Is there any way foryou to gauge how many people have already
seen it? Do you get likea little report thing going, oh this
many people are watching it now?How yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's
YouTube. That's what's one of thereasons we put it on YouTube is I

(09:11):
just want as many people to watchit as possible. I don't want them
to have to pay. I don'twant them to, uh have to go
through a bunch of different clicks.Just go on YouTube and google the Salesman,
Greg Warren or Nate Bargatzi Greg one. You'll find it and yeah,
it's it's off to a really reallygreat start. They tell me. I
don't you know, but it's alot of people watch it this weekend,
and uh, yeah, I wantto I want ten million people to watch

(09:35):
this thing when it's all said anddone. And uh at that point,
uh, maybe I will find somebodyto come home too. I was wondering,
like, you know, what's likethe comedy groupie seen, you know
for a fifty as year old man, because you know it's there, and
I'm sure it doesn't. It doesn't. I haven't seen a lot of it.
I'll tell you that. I mean, I really had a lot of

(09:58):
fun when I was in my latethirties, but uh yeah, I haven't
seen quite a and I gotta behoalgy. It's not I'm not saying I'm
dead, but it's not the mostimportant thing in my life. It's just
that it's not like, uh yeah, it's those priorities changed. I'm very

(10:18):
few. I'm interested. I'm notdead, but yeah I don't. I've
been doing radio for thirty five years, and I can tell you there will
be There will never be another timelike my first eight. When I was
doing it, it was incredible.I'm surprised that I'm alive. It's a
lot like watching Motley Cruz the Dirtand and and I'm I'm glad that I

(10:41):
grew up past all of it.And so it's cool that you've that you've
hit this point of your life whereyou can truly enjoy what you do every
single day. And it's obviously differentfrom selling peanut butter. Yeah, man,
I think I think you and Ihad it similar as where like,
because when I was selling peanut butter, you know, I do the I

(11:03):
was doing comedy on the side.We do a show and uh, it
would be awesome, and and theyou know, these guys will be like,
hey, man, these girls wantto go next Doore and drink and
hang out. You want to go? And I'm like, I gotta get
up and sell peanut butter. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then I
quit in that first week I wasout, and they're like, hey,
these girls want to go next Dooreand drink and hang out. You want

(11:24):
to go? And I'm like,yes, yes I do, and I
can actually do that now. Yeah. It's gotta be Yeah, it's gotta
be tough when you're when you're youknow in that border where you're you still
have your real job, but you'redoing comedy because at night you're famous,
and then you're going back to whateverthe job was. Mine was a title
company, so you can imagine like, oh here, I am gonna tie

(11:45):
the next bunch of files. AndI'm like, last night I was a
superstar and today I'm I'm the youngestguy at a title company, stuck in
this room filing crap. I hatedit. Oh my god, yeah,
yeah, I had this. UhI did this show. You know,
you know Kevin Pollock, the actor, Yes, yes, I do him.

(12:07):
Sorry, guy from a few GoodMen. He well, he's a
comic. And this was like latenineties or maybe early two thousands, and
I was I was still working atProcter and Gamble, and I was,
Uh, I got to do ashow with Kevin for a weekend, really,
and he was in Dante, Ohio, and he sold out, you
know, every seat in the club, and uh, I'm I had really
good shows. And at the endof the week Sunday night, Kevin's like,

(12:28):
hey, man, you know Iheard that you know, you don't
do this full time. I waslike, no, you guys, he
goes you could, man, You'regood enough to do this really. And
I went back to work that thatMonday and I was like, I don't
think I'm long for this job.One On some level I knew I was
done. Wow, Because you know, Kevin Pollock is huge. I mean
he's been in everything, but he'syeah, he's not one of those like,

(12:52):
uh name recognizable people. I hadto think about it for two point
three seconds, but he is.Yeah. If you see his face,
you'll be like, oh, TenantWeinberg, Yeah from d been everywhere.
Well, that's cool. I'm gladthat you listen to their advice. Otherwise
we wouldn't have you and the salesmanright there available on YouTube. You've been
a joy, Greg Warren to talkto this morning. Thanks for hanging out

(13:15):
with me for a little bit.Ah Man, pleasure talking you. I
hope I get to meet you livesometime. Yes, sir, have a
fantastic day and enjoy the rest ofthe forty six interviews that you have to
do after you hang up the phone. All right, man, take care
of yourself. We'll talk. ThanksRex, Thanks buddy. See it.
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